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vanhyo
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Titles says it.
Is it possible to make my weapons's arcs always appear without pointing my mouse to it ? Such option will fix the said problem with certainty.
Is it possible to make my weapons's arcs always appear without pointing my mouse to it ? Such option will fix the said problem with certainty.
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To make sure, this is the ship you mean?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/411676233760374794/805106600176123934/unknown.png
I have been using it on my recruit and have not had an issue, but I'm not often stationary or in reverse (I probably don't do space combat very efficiently; I mostly keep moving, keep shooting
Either way, I would not be against them putting in a setting like you suggest. So long as it is optional. (And does not break anything else since the game code seems to operate via butterfly effect.
We already have the "all trails when moving forwards, just one when moving backwards" VFX, the option to have the camera snap back to behind the ship, model clues like big cannons for most of the KDF ships, the "cursor over the weapon slot to see the arc" FX, the directional shield visual option to compare with the shield power HUD part and impulse engines usually having the same symmetrical glowing colors (red or orange for Feds and KDF, neon green for RR, purple or blue for Jem'Hadar).
What ship is pictured? I seem to have missed it coming out, or even any mention of a recruitment T6, RL has been rather busy for me lately so I have barely had time to go in and do the minimum event daily for the last month or so.
The tips of the wings face forward..
This ship actually has hard mounted guns that face forward as well..
How can this possibly be confusing? Especially since what you're asking for is already there.. part of the ships model is front facing guns.
It is the M'Chla BoP Refit ( https://sto.gamepedia.com/M'Chla_Bird-of-Prey_Refit )
You get it on a new KDF character (can't be Romulan or Dominion KDF-allied, just the actual KDF character creation section) in the current recruitment event. Once you kill the "priority target" found in the first mission from the Warzone Arc, you can claim the ship from the transponder you got in the tutorial.
Normally the end with giant cannon fire coming out of it is the front but I've managed to temporarily lose track as well. It only really sucks when you just buffed up but find you're not aimed quite right.
A tad of zoom seems to help but too much obscures the field of view.
Choosing a camera view that faces forward might be one thing that can help.
Similar to the KDF recruit ground melee challenge it seems you have to get accustomed to things, fiddle around, and practice to find what works best for your play style.
At least it's not one of those ships that always looks like it's flying backwards.
there's also the BoP head on it that faces forward, now if you're using the base M'Chala skin and are unfamiliar with the design I could see someone getting confused, now if you're using a ship this small zoomed as far as you would with a bigger yeah then I could see an issue but then at that size pretty much any ship would have that issue.
Though as a rule of thumb all Bird of Prey models seem to have forward sweeping wings (yes even the Romulan ones), so that could be used even a bit further away from the ship.
When I increase the size, it's fairly easy to tell which direction it's facing.
"Hello there."
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Ferengi_D'Kora_Marauder
https://sto.gamepedia.com/APU_Cruiser
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Suliban_Cell_Ship
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Lukari_Ho'kuun_Science_Vessel
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Lukari_N'Kaam_Scout_Ship
And of course, la crême de la crême that confused even the devs:
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Benthan_Assault_Cruiser
I don't have problems with my N'Kaams (I have one as a skin for a Ho'kuun and one as the plain T5U), that wide drive panel and the fog it puts out makes the direction rather obvious, and the Hello Kitty hull pattern that I have on one of them helps a bit too.
I find the Ra'nodaire MUCH more satisfying after some testing on Tribble, because the Dhailkhina's pets are godawful and I suspect they're broken as well. They seem to only fire when they activate CSV and not only it's just the lead fighter of each squadron wing doing the firing but I also don't remember them firing a single torpedo.
Also, the console, while offering some nice-looking beam spam doesn't seem to do much damage compared to other consoles, even from C-Store ships.
At least, with the Ra'nodaire, even if it's MUCH more sluggish, I can access the drone ships and the default fighters and frigates keep spamming their abilities.